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3 min read Psychology

Always

This natural bedfellow of ‘never’ is another of the mind's greatest hits ⌛️

Always
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It’s funny, when I dip into my on-the-go list of ideas for Daily Reminder topics, I sometimes find one that’s remarkably similar to another, but separated in time by mere weeks.

It’s the same insight—the same thing I’ve seen—but it’s as if this whole being-human malarkey is set up for us to forget, and forget again… and then forget some more. No matter how many times we see through the mind’s tricks!

Which is the whole raison d'être for the Daily Reminders. I figure that if I forget—when I help people with this stuff on a daily basis!—then you probably do too.

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So the other day I was talking about the mind working in absolutes: right/wrong, good/bad, always/never, and I spoke about “Not buying a ticket to Neverland.”

And lo, what should I find here in my ideas list…?

An article about its bedfellow: ‘Always